Social Phenomena

Author : Bruno Gonçalves
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319140116
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Phenomena written by Bruno Gonçalves and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this area of research, merging an extremely heterogeneous array of datasets and models. Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models is divided into two parts. Part I deals with modeling social behavior under normal conditions: How we live, travel, collaborate and interact with each other in our daily lives. Part II deals with societal behavior under exceptional conditions: Protests, armed insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and reactions to infectious diseases. This book offers an overview of one of the most fertile emerging fields bringing together practitioners from scientific communities as diverse as social sciences, physics and computer science. We hope to not only provide an unifying framework to understand and characterize social phenomena, but also to help foster the dialogue between researchers working on similar problems from different fields and perspectives.

Author : Sune Lehmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319773321
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems written by Sune Lehmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about spreading of information and influence in complex networks. Although previously considered similar and modeled in parallel approaches, there is now experimental evidence that epidemic and social spreading work in subtly different ways. While previously explored through modeling, there is currently an explosion of work on revealing the mechanisms underlying complex contagion based on big data and data-driven approaches. This volume consists of four parts. Part 1 is an Introduction, providing an accessible summary of the state of the art. Part 2 provides an overview of the central theoretical developments in the field. Part 3 describes the empirical work on observing spreading processes in real-world networks. Finally, Part 4 goes into detail with recent and exciting new developments: dedicated studies designed to measure specific aspects of the spreading processes, often using randomized control trials to isolate the network effect from confounders, such as homophily. Each contribution is authored by leading experts in the field. This volume, though based on technical selections of the most important results on complex spreading, remains quite accessible to the newly interested. The main benefit to the reader is that the topics are carefully structured to take the novice to the level of expert on the topic of social spreading processes. This book will be of great importance to a wide field: from researchers in physics, computer science, and sociology to professionals in public policy and public health.

Author : Rosaria Conte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662033666
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simulating Social Phenomena written by Rosaria Conte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book experts from quite different fields present simulations of social phenomena: economists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, organisational scientists, decision scientists, geographers, computer scientists, AI and AL scientists, mathematicians and statisticians. They simulate markets, organisations, economic dynamics, coalition formation, the emergence of cooperation and exchange, bargaining, decision making, learning, and adaptation. The history, problems, and perspectives of simulating social phenomena are explicitly discussed.

Author : Marco Delmastro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030775364
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Measurement of Social Phenomena written by Marco Delmastro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the analysis of social phenomena, using a multidisciplinary approach while addressing statistical, economic, sociological, as well as psychological issues. The author presents a detailed account of the procedures and techniques used to gather, process, and analyze data. Topics covered include, but are not limited to survey data, content analysis data, data visualization, as well as data about crimes. The book addresses this methodological framework that drives applied social sciences in an applicative and simple way, by analyzing key social phenomena such as the threats to journalism, the so-called chilling effect, and the market for news. Finally, the author examines the data and measures of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This book is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of the methodological analysis of social phenomena, social and political methodology, and applied science in general.

Author : Keiki Takadama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431997814
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena written by Keiki Takadama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as an interdisciplinary area of social science that includes computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. This area contributes to enriching our understanding of the fundamental processes of social phenomena caused by complex interactions among agents. Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the Second World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2008 at George Mason University in Washington DC, USA. This book in particular includes articles on norms, diffusion, social networks, economy, markets and organizations, computational modeling, and programming environments, providing new hypotheses and theories, new simulation experiments compared with various data sets, and new methods for model design and development. These works emerged from a global and interdisciplinary scientific community of the three regional scientific associations for social simulation: the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS; now the Computational Social Science Society, CSSS), the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), and the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-bBased Approach in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA).

Author : Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8893772515
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complexity of Social Phenomena written by Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is complexity? What are the characteristics of a complex system? What does it mean to measure? How to develop an efficient tool for measuring socio-economic phenomena? What is synthesis? What are the main statistical tools for synthesis of multi-indicator systems? These are the research questions that are attempted to be answered in this book, the result of the author’s research work during his PhD. The book offers a conceptual and methodological analysis of the topic of synthesis of complex social phenomena, also proposing interesting applications to real cases. Winner of the Competition “Prize for PhD Thesis 2020” arranged by Sapienza University Press.

Author : Federico Cecconi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319239384
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in the Study of Social Phenomena written by Federico Cecconi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies social phenomena in a new way, by making judicious use of computer technology. The book addresses the entire spectrum of classic studies in social science, from experiments to the computational models, with a multidisciplinary approach. The book is suitable for those who want to get a picture of what it means to do social research today, and also to get an indication of the major open issues. The book is connected to a database of code for simulations, experimental data and allows to activate a subscription to a teaching tool using NetLogo, a programming language widely used in the social studies. The authors are researchers with first-hand experience research projects, both basic and applied. The work will be useful for those who want to understand more of the social, economic and political phenomena via computer applications.

Author : Marlena Mirosława Kowalczyk
Publisher : Wydawnictwo Leader-Great
ISBN 13 : 1427648492
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Processes and Social Phenomena. the Chosen Problems written by Marlena Mirosława Kowalczyk and published by Wydawnictwo Leader-Great. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andreas Koch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903456
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modeling Social Phenomena in Spatial Context written by Andreas Koch and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human behavior and action is closely related to a corresponding social and spatial environment. The nature of relations in their structures, functions, and temporal domains is characterized by a duality of contexts, an interrelatedness of the individual and local with the social and global. Causes, influences, and effects are mutual - and this at different scales. This book presents approaches that deal with interactions within and between the social and spatial realm, focusing on human behavior, land use change, and energy and infrastructure issues from an agent-based perspective. (Series: Geosimulation - Vol. 2)

Author : Christina Schües
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031041666
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena written by Christina Schües and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It is based on the first extended qualitative study with 17 families about experiences with recent transplants and experiences with transplants up to 20 years in the past. It covers reflections of donors, recipients and other family members, as well as family interactions. Transplantation of bone marrow from one sibling to another who is ill with a blood cancer (such as Leukemia) is a life-saving therapy. Young children however are not in a position to give consent themselves. How should they be adequately included, depending to their age? Which ethical questions are raised for the parents both at the time of treatment and afterwards, and for the medical professionals in clinical and regulatory contexts? For an in-depth discussion of the findings the books brings together a group of leading scholars from the fields of bioethics, family sociology and philosophy of medicine.